Tyto cavatica Wetmore, 1920:80

Puerto Rican barn owl 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Tyto glaucops cavatica Wetmore, 1920:80

Invalid. Synonym of Tyto glaucops (Suárez & Olson, 2020)

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: Late Pleistocene (1912?)

Distribution

Puerto Rico

Biology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Wetmore, Alexander. (1920). Five New Species of Birds from Cave Deposits in Porto Rico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 33: 77-82.

Other references:

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2020). Systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae). Zootaxa 4830(3): 544-564. [Abstract]

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Wetmore, Alexander. (1922). Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 46: 297-333.

Wetmore, Alexander. (1927). Scientific survey of Porto Rico. Birds of Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, 1927.

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